Anyhow, I reckon you better stay with us till we see how the fuss ends.

You certainly are a likely young rider, an' I can use you right hyere till you feel like goin' farther." A wave of grateful emotion rushed over the boy, blinding his eyes with tears, and before he could speak to thank his benefactor, dinner was called.

The girl perceived the tears in his eyes, and as they went out to dinner she looked at him with a comradeship born of the knowledge that he, too, had suffered.
He returned her glance with one equally frank and friendly, and all through the meal he addressed himself to her more often than to her parents.

She was of the most gentle, and patient, and yielding type.

Her beautiful lips and eyes expressed only sweetness and feminine charm, and her body, though thin and bent, was of girlish slimness.
Reynolds warmed to the boy wondrously.